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The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research recently awarded a $10 million grant supporting U.S. dairy’s Net Zero Initiative. The funding will support a six-year project titled Dairy Soil and Water Regeneration. The project focuses on building soil health to reduce greenhouse gases and improving water quality, along with enabling new economic benefits. A ...

Phase one of Organic Valley's dairy life cycle assessment evaluated on-farm greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farms using different management practices. The results are in, and farming practices of Organic Valley farmers have a measurable benefit for the planet, reinforcing the cooperative's commitment to bringing ethically made organic food to families ...

Could the Commodity Credit Corporation one day also be seen as a carbon bank? "Remember the charter of the commodity credit corporation speaks specifically to markets. Stabilizing markets, and yes creating markets. So it's really designed for this type of opportunity," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack ...

The Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance announced its membership is expanding as it puts together new policy working groups. Last year, the Alliance made more than 40 recommendations on how agriculture can help mitigate climate change and the new groups will focus on developing a set of more-specific policy proposals ...

Many in the agriculture community are concerned the long-term impacts legislation currently making its way through the state House could have on farm country across Washington. House Bill 1084 looks to prohibit any new construction in the state from including natural gas or propane as a form of electricity or heat, as well as require retrofits of existing construction ...

A New Study shows that widely available precision agriculture technology improves environmental stewardship while providing a solid economic return for farmers. “We’re living in a new age of technology, and the equipment can have an enormous positive impact on farmers and the environment,” says Curt Blades, Senior Vice President of Agriculture at the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. The St

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association has responded to the Biden Administration's recent Executive Orders tied to climate change and American farming. NCBA Vice President Of Government Affairs, Ethan Lane, said the NCBA is pleased that the Biden administration has made it clear that they intend to start by having conversations with the Ag community and cattle producers across the country. &qu

Walmart recently announced that the company is doubling down on addressing the growing climate crisis by targeting zero emissions across the company's global operations by 2040. Walmart and the Walmart Foundation are also committing to help protect, manage, or restore at least 50 million acres of land and one million square miles of ocean by 2030 to help combat the cascading loss of nature threate

Dairy Farmers of America seeks to become the first U.S. dairy cooperative to set a science-based target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The national dairy cooperative is setting a science-based target and committing to reduce both direct and value chain greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030 ...

Earlier this week, the Consumer Goods Forum launched a CEO-led Coalition of Action on Food Waste. The effort bringing together 14 of the world's largest retailers and manufacturers. The coalition seeks to cut global food loss at the retailer and consumer level in half ...